Okinawa

Japan Rearms Under Washington’s Pressure − a Wake-up Call to the Antiwar Movement

December 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Asia, China, Japan, U.S. Aggression

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 28, 2022 The Dec. 16 announcement by Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of a new defense strategy, while doubling military spending by 2027 to implement it, is the largest defense shake-up in decades and a wake-up call to the antiwar movement. The decision includes openly acquiring offensive weapons and reshaping its military[…]

Top Poisoner of Pacific Is U.S. Military

October 14, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Military vs The Environment, Toxic Chemicals

by David Swanson, published on World Beyond War, October 12, 2020 “We’re number one!” The United States famously fails to actually lead the world in anything desirable, but it does lead the world in many things, and one of them turns out to be the poisoning of the Pacific and its islands. And by the United States, I mean the[…]

World Scholars, Artists, Activists Call for Demilitarization of Okinawa

September 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Environment, Protest, Resistance, US Foreign Bases

080821-N-0529C-004 OKINAWA, Japan (Aug. 21, 2008) – Two CH46 helicopters transport Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133) to a bombing range off the coast of Okinawa. On August 21, 2008, a survey team performed a site visit to this remote location. NMCB 133 will take the results of this survey and generate a plan to make the[…]

Activists on JeJous Island Oppose Gentrification and Militarization

September 11, 2018 UNAC Editor Korea, Resistance

by Buddy Bell, published on Voices for Creative Nonviolence, September 6, 2018 On the cusp of July and August, nearly 200 students and 150 adults participated in a 3-day march in opposition to the construction of a second airport on Jeju-Do, South Korea. The plans include leveling two small mountains on the eastern side of the island and the likely[…]